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The Seattle Prep campus sports five buildings and nearly 700 students these days. Evenings and weekends, its green lawn welcomes neighbors, their kids and their dogs. But few of the school’s neighbors may be aware of the history still visible at the corner of 11th Avenue East and East Miller Street. …

I’ve realized that I’ve become a CapHillgotist. Are you one? A self assessment form follows. Do you believe that Capitol Hill is the best neighborhood in Seattle?Do you coyly recommend that people moving to the city first check walkscore.com, knowing full well that their neighborhood choice will pale in comparison to your score of ninety-frigging-eight?Do you feel irrational warmth towards Cal Anderson, despite the fact that, until you looked it up just now, you new nothing about him and in fact mistakenly believed him to be a baseball player?Do you keep a blog about Capitol Hill? Do you comment on other blogs about Capitol Hill?Do you actually live in Capitol Hill?Do you bite your thumb at low-density neighborhoods, SUVs, lawns, white picket fences, 2.2 children per family, driving to the grocery store, all-white neighborhoods, and doors plinked daily with USA Today subscriptions?Are you a public transportation snob? Do you occasionally scour flickr for tag caphill and love even phot …

Some new business must have just opened in my hood, because our walk score just got bumped up a notch from 97 to 98. I’m pretty chuffed about that, especially because my most recent Manhattan address only rates a 94. Same for my old Astoria (Queens) address. That said, Bus Chick makes a good point when she writes that “walkability is about a lot more than how many stores are in your neighborhood.” The walk score should include things like weather patterns, crime patterns/safety, sidewalk quality, air quality, the abundance (or lack of) steep hills, the presence (or lack of) curfew laws, and the presence (or lack of) interesting things to look at while walking. If these factors were included, I’d mod my Capitol Hill address up in every area except for “weather patterns” (rain interferes with the pleasure of walking) and air quality (there’s too much pollution in the region, thanks to our awful, daily traffic jams, car culture, lack of quality mass transit, and so on). Update: As Carles …

Knute Berger over at Crosscut picks up on the cover story of April’s Colors NW which examines Seattle-area demographic shifts and concludes that the east side is a whole lot more diverse than we think it is. This is due in part to our segregationist past: with the exception of central Seattle, “people of color were banned from living in just about all of Seattle’s neighborhoods, including Ballard, Capitol Hill and Queen Anne,” the article notes. …

Where would you draw the boundaries for Capitol Hill? What streets form its borders? One guidebook I have dodges the question entirely. Most maps are ambiguous. …

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